What Is a Machine Learning Video Model?
When you type a prompt into Runway or Sora and a video clip appears, no existing footage was found or assembled. The model built it from scratch. Tools like Runway, Sora, and Veo are video models. Unlike a search engine, these models don’t find video, they create it. How a Video Model Learns Training a […]
Why Learn Machine Learning in the Age of AI
A colleague recently described a situation at her company. They had spent eight months using a machine learning model to decide which customers deserved attention first. For all eight of those months, the model was quietly deprioritizing their highest-value customers. Nobody noticed, because the dashboards looked fine and the model was accurate by its own […]
How Machine Learning Works: It’s Not Learning
A machine learning model doesn’t work the way you probably think it does. When most people hear the word learning, they picture something like understanding: a system that studies examples, figures out what they mean, and applies that knowledge to new situations. What actually happens is narrower than that. A model makes predictions, measures how […]
Machine Learning Foundations Part 4: Understanding Hardware
When your phone slows down because too many apps are open, it lags, gets warm, and everything takes twice as long to load. Machine learning has the same problem, just at a much bigger scale. The algorithms and models we’ve covered in this series all need physical computing power to run, and the type of […]
Machine Learning Foundations Part 3: Understanding Algorithms
This is Part 3 of our Foundations series. In Part 1, we covered data. In Part 2, models. Now we’re looking at algorithms: the methods that find patterns in data and produce models. What Is an Algorithm? An algorithm is a set of steps for solving a problem. A recipe is an algorithm. Driving directions […]
Machine Learning Foundations Part 2: Understanding Models
This is Part 2 of our Foundations series. In Part 1, we covered data. Now we’re looking at models: what they are, what types exist, and how they represent patterns in data. What Is a Model? Think about how a child learns what a dog is. At first, everything with four legs might be “dog.” […]
Machine Learning Foundations Part 1: Understanding Data
Data: The Foundation of Machine Learning This is the first post in a 4-part series that takes you behind the scenes of how machines learn. We’ll explore the fundamental building blocks of machine learning: the data, the models, the algorithms, and the hardware that powers today’s technologies. By the end of this series, you’ll have […]